Today is episode 3 of our green series. Last week we had a great interview with Daniel Pope about immersion cooling and the week before that we jumped right in with green software. We started there because it really is the most important piece of the movement to save electricity in computation. Poorly optimized software literally wastes billions of dollars and terawatt hours of electricity every year. So we are zooming out just one level, from the software layer to the physical layer. This episode is about green hardware – servers, networks and racks. This may sound crazy but it’s true. The next biggest savings still isn’t cooling or power systems or anything to do with the large scale data center systems. Server hardware really has the biggest impact next to software. So today we are going to talk about some hardware trends that I would love to see continue. These are things that can be utilized right now – this very day – in your facility.

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